The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-04-14
CURRENT TOPICS.


FRASKliN's face will lillumi nate the new
one cent stamped envelope.
ONE Lima (0) barber Rdvcrtiscs 70
shave six men in ten minutes.
A NEw YoRK woman has sent cards 10
friends announcing her divorce,
DR. MoCosH OF Princeton College, is op-
posed 10 secret college societies,
DNpER the new law there are TO be no
more public hangngs In Missouri,
THEBE are ten thousand women In Gin
cirnati who earn their own living
TnEW are 10000 unmarried men in
Paris against $50 OOo married men.
WALES tthe country has positively ro-
fused TO join in the Victoria jubilee
No city in the United States has relative
iy so large foreign population Us Chi
cago.
THr entire total Of the Hebrew race on
the surface OF the globe is estimated ut
6,90O,OOO.
i'nosr who formerly held free passes arc
now spoken OF in railroad circles as OK.
dead heads,
FIRsr the President married, then Sec
Rotary Lamar and now 1t issaid 70 be Sec.
rotary Bayard
HERR KnrrP Is going TO start first-class
daily newspaper AT Essen for the use of his
10000 workmen.
A DHEAsE embracing many symptoms Of
pneumonia and plurisy has become prcya-
lent in New Jersey,
SEVENTEEN thousand dollars is what II
cost the city Of New York 10 send three
doodle aldermen 10 Sing Sing
ForR new postotfices have jus, been cs-
tablishod with the cuphonious names Of
Pigs, Dump, Pulse and Malaria
GfSERAL ScnEScK is living quietly in
Washington with his daughters, who arc
Intelligent and entertaining ladies.
RoBgET I LiNcol.N offers the Springfield
homestead 10 the state Of Illinois ON con.
dition that 1t be- preserved with caro-.
TnE New Jersey Senate has passed bill
providing fer the free transportation OF
Legislators on all railroads in tho State.
GEoRgE NJ. Pullman, the millionaire
sleeping car Knight commenced his busi-
ness career in Chicago, as a house raiser.
TnB Congress Of Churches aud Christians
recently in session at Chicago, condemned
free-masonry and all other secret soci.
cites.
cisco millionaire, has given Sl,0ol,o0 to
found trade school for boys and girls in
that city.
FIVE hundred dollars was paid for n lc,-
ter In Philadelphia the other dav to pre-.
vent II from being read ina "fashdonablcr
divorce case.
THE toilets Of 10 ladies who formed tho
cortego AZ a recent carnival ball In Vienna
were valued at S15500O and the diamonds
ut 100000.
No DAKoTA Indian will wear an oaglo
feather unless entitled 10 IL, as they be-
licve II will fly away from their heads II
worn unlawfully.
FIFTEEN cows huddled in Northern Pa
cific railroad cut TO keep from freezing 10.
death, and a freight train came through
and killed oil Of them
NJ LAcoNBE, an ingenious Frcnchman, has
succeeded in taking long.disinnce photo
graphs by fixing telescope In front Of tho
objective Of the camera.
PEACE between Germany and the yatI!
can seems TO be assured. Pope Leo has
expressed his satisfaction with tho atti.
tudc OF Prince Bismarck
TnE New York Hcrah is urging that tho
Territory OF Alaskn be made penal colony
20 which All the States Of tho Union can
send ihcir contributions
a woRKby Mcissonicr, l0iy bv ilt3. illus.
trating horse soldier on outpost duty, is
the costlicst water color in the world, be-
ing valued at over $500.
MRs FREDERICK EouARTE, Of East Thir-
tysccond street Now York. magincs her
sclf the wife OF the Creator, and will not
be convinced 10 the contrary.
THTBE is rich man In tho Black Hills,
says the Bismarck Times, who dates tho
beginning OF his fortune from the day
when ho sold his wife for 1900
TIM win OF married woman Just pro.
bated in Kingston, y, Y,,is peculiar in
that II gives all her property TO her hus-
band for lfo, or as long as he "remains
unmarried"
ENou0n crimes are being laid at the door
of Mr. Kissanc alips Titus nlIns Rogers to
give rise TO the suspicion that he is being
made n scapegoat for the sins Of all tho
other California "4eers.n
A MAN near Greeley, Col, had thirty
acres Of land which he could neither sell
nor mortgage, and in despair he went out
and struck n coal vein thirteen feet thick
and sold the land for $4,000
- IHE washington capital says 1.-THE state
ment that the four Interstate Commerce
Commissioners who came to Washington
last week travelled on free passes is libel
ous, and, we hope untrue.n
THE crank who exploded bomb in tho
Grand Opern-house at San Francisco has
explained that he wanted TO end his life
while Patti was singing, so that he could
be her page In the spirit land.
SHORTLY after her marriage the Sultan
Of Turkey generously offered Mrs, Cleye-
land the decoration of the Order Of tho
Caliphat but she declined it, and the Incl
denthas just been made public
Ngw York proposes TO spend 81, 100000
IN the Improvement OF its streets, 81, ,00O,-
COO 70 be spcnt each year until tho work OF
furnishing the city with entirely new pay.
ing Of the best material Is finished.
Oxr Of the most eccentric rich mon in
New York city is tho venerable Benjamin
Richardson. He rs said 10 be worth 81, ,ooO,-
900 or more, but livcs IN small tumble
down house in Harlem. He holds mort
90 fnr $4,000 against one of the most